This package contains a class, Game, which contains a basic implementation.
const Game = require('life');
// creating a Game object without parameters will create a game
// with window size 10x10, with a randomised seed
let game = new Game();
game.iterate();
game.grid // =
// [[1, 0, 0],
// [0, 1, 1],
// [1, 0, 1]]
let seed = [
[0, 0, 0],
[1, 1, 1],
[0, 0, 0]
];
let seededGame = new Game(seed);
seededGame.iterate()
seededGame.grid // =
// [[0, 1, 0],
// [0, 1, 0],
// [0, 1, 0]]This repository contains a console visualiser, which shows the grid as it iterates.
$ npm install
$ node ./viz/console.jsThe repository also contains an HTML visualiser, which can be run in the browser. To build the browser script,
$ npm install
$ npm run buildand then open viz/html/index.html in your browser. These files are mirrored into docs/ to provide hosting in GitHub pages, which can be viewed at https://aacn500.github.io/life
Both of these visualisers start with randomised seeds.
This implementation does have a limitation: the Game of Life takes place on an infinitely large grid. Any visualisation must then show a 'window' into that grid. This implementation only considers the grid inside that window and assumes that all cells outside that window are dead. In a more 'correct' implementation, this would be obviously false.